How to install ActiveMQ on CentOS

In today’s article, we’ll explain how to install Apache ActiveMQ on a CentOS 5.X VPS. Apache ActiveMQ is is the most popular and powerful open source messaging and Integration Patterns server.

Installing Java JDK

First we’ll need to install Java 1.7 JDK. Oracle has recently disallowed direct downloads of java from their servers, luckily we can still use wget to download Java 1.7 JDK. If you have one of our Java Hosting packages this will already be installed and configured.